Announcing the 2025 Schwab Academic Excellence Award Winners
January 27, 2025 | Kristen Chavez
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce 27 recipients of the 2025 Schwab Academic Excellence Awards. The award recognizes faculty members from each College of Arts and Sciences department in the arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences.
Faculty may use the awarded funds to support their scholarship and creative activity.
The 2025 Schwab Academic Excellence Award winners are:
African, African American, and Diaspora Studies: Michael Lambert (FFP ’04, ’21) and Alicia Monroe (FFP ’22)
American Studies: Ben Bridges and Tim Marr (FFP ’03, ’09)
Anthropology: Rachel Briggs and Emily Curtin
Art and Art History: Kathryn Desplanque and Roxana Perez-Mendez
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: Afroz Taj (FFP ’11) and Yurika Tamura
City and Regional Planning: Tab Combs and Kate Harwood
Classics: George Baroud
Communication: Aaron Shapiro
Dramatic Art: Mark Perry
English and Comparative Literature: Daelena Tinnin-Gadson
Geography and Environment: Elizabeth Havice (FFP ’19, ALP ’23)
Germanic Slavic Languages and Literatures: Eliza Rose (FFP ’22)
History: Karen Auerbach (FFP ’22)
Linguistics: Elliott Moreton (FFP ’16)
Music: Evan Harger
Philosophy: Rosalind Chaplin
Political Science: Lucy Martin
Religious Studies: Jessica Boon (FFP ’23)
Romance Studies: Paulo Rodrigues Ferreira
Sociology: Ted Mouw
Women’s and Gender Studies: Jillian Hinderliter
The Institute is pleased to offer additional awards beginning with six departments. For the next four years, in an effort to increase the impact of the Schwab Academic Excellence Award, some departments will be asked to nominate two faculty until all eligible departments have been able to do so. This year, in addition to the 21 awards given to each department in the fine arts, humanities, and qualitative social sciences, another award was given to six departments, determined by alphabetical order.
Julia Sprunt Grumbles, former IAH Advisory Board chair and current member, established the award in 2015 to help department chairs recognize teaching and scholarship. Nelson Schwab III, former IAH Advisory Board Chair, has since endowed the fund.
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